Depression is a mental health condition which involves negative, lethargic, and self-loathing thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that may significantly interfere with everyday functioning. Approximately 20 million people in the U.S. have symptoms of depression.
Anxiety (and even fear) can be helpful. It can motivate us, keep us focused, alert, and increase our performance in tasks. If, however, the anxiety doesn’t go away after the situation, increases significantly in intensity, or just remains “hanging” like a cloud all the time, the consequences can be harmful. They can considerably affect your everyday functioning or even affect your physical health with problems such as cardiac symptoms, reduced immunity, Gastro-Intestinal symptoms, excessive fatigue, and many of the other stress related physical symptoms. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately 18% of all U.S. adults have an anxiety disorder.
Heart disease is a general term that describes a wide variety of diseases that affect you heart and you blood vessels. These conditions include coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias); and heart defects you’re born with (congenital heart defects). The most common cause of heart disease is cardiovascular disease — a condition involving the narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries (blood vessels that supply the heart) that can lead to chest pain (angina), heart attack, or stroke. Other forms of heart disease may include infections and conditions that affect your heart’s muscle, valves, or rhythm.